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Illumination system

US6246464A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 1992
Grant dateJun 12, 2001
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Expiry dateAug 26, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K2007/10485
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a document processing array, an imaging/illumination arrangement for illuminating and imaging the documents at one or several imaging-sites as they are rapidly transported there-past, each site having, as its illumination source, a hollow Lambertian integrating cylinder housing lamps which project essentially all their light onto the inner cylinder walls to be reflected/diffused thereby in Lambertian fashion and sent to the imaging site(s).

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